If you had kids, what classic franchise would you BE SURE to introduce them to?

[skykiii]

Yeah I'm admittedly trolling for ideas--I've mentioned having a niece and nephew and I don't want them to be doorknobs. Luckily, they know what a Super Saiyan is, they've solved mysteries and rewrote history, they've Felt the Magic and Heard the Roar, and they've even found Waldo a few times.

But now I'm at a loss.

And I'm also just curious what you consider absolutely important to pass on to the next generation (in terms of like, art and fun stuff).

So what are your answers?

 

[HyperboreanRightsActivist]

Touching grass™, hiking®, and playing sports©

 

[Kosher Dill]

Greek mythology - the real thing, not "That Time I Got Reincarnated On Mount Olympus".

 

[Oats12345]

Digging for artifacts

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

Touching grass™, hiking®, and playing sports©

teach them to do stuff rather than be passive consoomers. introduce them to hobbies, get them into woodworking or model building. we need more kids doing things other than watching content.

 

[Dynamite Bean]

Building bombs in minecraft

 

[Dupree Home Edition]

damn what a based uncle showing them ching chong cartoon dragonball Z. Teach them life lessons, interact with them face to face. Listen to the girl carefully, roughhouse with the boy.

 

[White Devil]

None of them, you faggot. If all you're doing is training them to be good little consumers, get an abortion.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Cannibal Holocaust.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Since you're asking about multimedia stuff, off the top of my head, absolutely Godzilla, Powerpuff Girls, Jurassic Park, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I wish I could get my hands on anything of the 2003 version, though, but I'll figure something out for that.

I have a crap-ton of anime DVDs. so kid-friendly ones will totally be Pokémon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragon Ball (lol kid-friendly ), Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, and One Piece. Among others, but that's whatever. If I have a girl, I do have Wedding Peach and Fruits Basket on the side to balance out Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura. I'm not gonna be too picky about what a kid will watch as long as there's no rampant nudity and violence in it, I'll be shelving those anime out of the way until they're older.

 

[Admiral Throbnelius]

Industrial Society and its Future

 

[DumbDude43]

lord of the rings (first the books, movies only after they finished reading the whole trilogy)

but in general try and keep them away from entertainment media as much as possible

 

[skykiii]

lord of the rings (first the books, movies only after they finished reading the whole trilogy)

but in general try and keep them away from entertainment media as much as possible

If these were my biological kids I would deny up and down that the live-action movies even exist.

 

[Neo-Nazi Rich Evans]

I have a crap-ton of anime DVDs. so kid-friendly ones will totally be Pokémon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Dragon Ball (lol kid-friendly ), Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura, and One Piece. Among others, but that's whatever. If I have a girl, I do have Wedding Peach and Fruits Basket on the side to balance out Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura. I'm not gonna be too picky about what a kid will watch as long as there's no rampant nudity and violence in it, I'll be shelving those anime out of the way until they're older.

>anime
unironically introducing kids to anime should be a death sentence.

 

[Soup Sammiches]

I do/did and he was a big fan of the original Winnie the Pooh. The books as well as the cartoons.

 

[Safir]

Galaxy Express 999, an episode a week, as God intended. Yes, if it's a two-parter, they'll have to wait for the second half. Saturday Morning cartoons are a healthy media-consooming tradition.
(Except I'll be showing it at night, because the ending theme is a lullaby.)

edit:

as for books (not normally thought of as belonging to a "franchise"),

these (in no particular order) were considered children's writers, and were widely read by children, in the USSR, way before they got to Russian books for adults (8th grade, so like at 15):

• Jules Verne
• Thomas Mayne Reid
• Walter Scott (the medieval novels)
• Jack London
• Ernest Thompson Seton
• Mark Twain
• James Fenimore Cooper (the Leatherstocking books)
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• Rafael Sabatini
• Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)
• Alexandre Dumas pere (the Musketeer books, Monte-Cristo, Margot, Monsoreau)
• (honorable mention) Charles Dickens (featured in home reading assignments)

These weren't considered "classics", just fun time-wasters for kids. (The translators of these books, not "classic" Russian writers, ended up shaping the literary Russian language and people's literary taste.)

(The first "real" adult (not that kind of adult, perv!) novel I read was Word and Deed. I was eleven and shat bricks afterward.)

 

[skykiii]

None of them, you faggot. If all you're doing is training them to be good little consumers, get an abortion.

Ya know, there's a lot of responses that are essentially this, and seem to think that enjoying media somehow precludes any and all other activities/hobbies... and I would respond to that but I'm not sure to what extent those answers are serious.

Blame it on me having just woken up, my ability to detect humor tends to fail in the morning.

 

[Your Starter for 10]

My kid would only watch documentaries, like Highlander.

 

[TitusOvid]

Sticking with anime seems like a good idea. The Western animation I like would be more adult oriented.

 

[Uncle Sid]

Wonder Showzen.

The Sifl and Olly Show.

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